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All frontline officers in the Metropolitan Police will routinely use body-worn
cameras within the next two years.

Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe announced yesterday that 16,000 uniformed
patrolling officers will be given the devices by March 2016 at an estimated
cost of £9 million.

The cameras are being introduced in the wake of the fatal shooting of Mark
Duggan, whose death at the hands of a police marksman sparked a wave of
unrest. A small team of firearms officers has been trialling the cameras for
just over a week but they cannot yet be used by undercover teams, and so
would